RE: Change *DTAARA from within a COBOL pgm ?

["Mohondro, Kevin" <KMohondro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You could use the DISPLAY statement. That should allow you to write data out
to the *DTAARA. The ACCEPT statment should allow you to read from it. Much
like the IN & OUT opcodes from RPG.

However, I'm only a COBOL dabbler, so, I may not see any obvious problems
with my suggestion... :)

-Moe
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Kevin R Mohondro                kmohondro@salepoint.com
Software Engineer                         (858)373-2012                
SalePoint Corporate Retail Solutions      San Diego, CA


-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Truax [mailto:truax@telerama.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 1:59 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L list
Subject: Change *DTAARA from within a COBOL pgm ?


I have a COBOL 400 program that uses a call to QCMDEXC to change a *DTAARA
(Data area).
Is there a less overhead utilizing manner in which to change a *DTAARA from
within a COBOL program than using the QCMDEXC?
Maybe some similar way to the way RPG400 does it by using the IN opcode then
the OUT opcode?
Thanks!
Tim Truax  :-)